This international conference will bring together scientific
domain experts, databases researchers, practitioners and developers for the
presentation and exchange of current research on concepts, tools and techniques
for scientific and statistical database applications. The 17th SSDBM will
provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design,
implementation and evaluation.

In keeping with the mission of the Bren School, this year's
conferences will focus on applications of scientific and statistical databases
to environmental problems, including:

Very large environmental databases

Geospatial and spatiotemporal databases

Database support for environmental modeling

Federated environmental databases

The conference will also feature invited talks, panel sessions,
poster sessions, and demonstrations of research prototypes and industrial
systems. SSDBM 2005 will continue the tradition of past SSDBM meetings in
providing a stimulating environment to encourage discussion, fellowship and
exchange of ideas in all aspects of research related to scientific and statistical
database management.

In addition to this year's focus areas, SSDBM invites
original research contributions in any area related to scientific and statistical
database management, including:

Conceptual models for scientific databases

Knowledge management

Data integration

Data reduction and approximation

Data warehouses

OLAP

Experiment data management

Knowledge and data sharing via XML

Knowledge discovery and data mining

Metadata management

Multimedia data management

Performance evaluation

Scientific visualization

System architectures

Case studies of SSDBM-related applications, demonstrations,
and short papers for poster sessions are also invited.